Knowledge, Reality, and Value: Huemer’s Response, Part 2

Here’s Mike Huemer’s second set of responses to me and you.

About Bryan’s Comments

Thanks again to Bryan, and the readers who commented on his post, for their thoughts about Part 2. This is all cool and interesting. I’ll just comment on a few questions and points of disagreement.

1. Real World Hypothesis (RWH) vs. Brain-in-a-Vat Hypothesis (BIVH)

“Why, though, couldn’t we race the Real World theory against the Simulation-of-the-Real-World theory?”

Good question. We can think of it like this: we...